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arxiv: 1512.09007 · v1 · pith:Q3KLZWLAnew · submitted 2015-12-30 · 🧮 math.GN · math.FA· math.GR

A countable free closed non-reflexive subgroup of Z^c

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We prove that the group G=Hom(P,Z) of all homomorphisms from the Baer-Specker group P to the group Z of integer numbers endowed with the topology of pointwise convergence contains no infinite compact subsets. We deduce from this fact that the second Pontryagin dual of G is discrete. As G is non-discrete, it is not reflexive. Since G can be viewed as a closed subgroup of the Tychonoff product of continuum many copies of the integers Z, this provides an example of a group described in the title, thereby answering Problem 11 from [J.Galindo, L.Recorder-N\'{u}\~{n}ez, M.Tkachenko, Reflexivity of prodiscrete topological groups, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 384 (2011), 320--330.] It follows that an inverse limit of finitely generated (torsion-)free discrete abelian groups need not be reflexive.

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